List of Thai newspapers

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This is a partial list of Thai newspapers .

Press story

Movable type printing was unknown in Siam. In the early days there was only a readership among the resident foreigners; among the locals, only officials and Buddhist monks connected with the court could read. The first newspapers in Bangkok were published by American missionaries and showed their puritanical tendencies in their reporting. Dan Beach Bradley first published the short-lived Bangkok Recorder (1844), followed by his Bangkok Calendar. Samuel Smith , also a missionary, published the Siam Weekly Advertiser (1869–86) and the first newspaper written in Thai: Sayam samai . The court's mouthpieces were the Official Gazette Ratchakitchanubeksa (“Royal Gazette” or “Royal Thai Government Gazette” ราชกิจจานุเบกษา ) and Darunowat.

The comparatively long-lived English-language Bangkok Times (weekly 1887–96, daily 1896–1942; conservative British-friendly) with a Thai edition Bangkok s'mai , the Bangkok Daily Mail (American line; comparatively critical) and Siam Observer ( economically liberal), as well as the Siam Mercantile Gazette under German management . The English-language newspapers received all subsidies by 1910 at the latest, which resulted in uncritical, pro-government reporting. In the publishing Siam Free Press which appeared Bangkok Daily Mail that around 1912 probably in 1500, the highest circulation had been after Vajiravudh was criticism too hard, bought in 1917 by this. Prajadhipok sold the sheet in 1927 to his father-in-law Prince Svasti , who discontinued it in 1933 for financial reasons. Monthly Siam Magazine , Siam muey and Krungthep Daily Mail were published by the same publisher ; it was comparatively objective.

The press law of 1923, tightened in 1927, allowed the prosecution of critical journalists, so several editors worked behind a foreign straw man in order to benefit from the immunity granted by extraterritoriality. After the beginning of the 20th century and the growth of an urban middle class with a western education, numerous Thai newspapers appeared. Chino sayam warasap , founded in 1907 by Chinese nationalists, was published in a Chinese and a Thai edition. Nangsuphim thai , was bought by Vajiravudh after the failed palace revolt in 1912 , who turned it into a courtly mouthpiece. It was discontinued after the Siam coup in 1932 . "Political" reporting only began after the First World War with newspapers such as Awanti , Sayam sakkhi , Yamato , founded in 1922 - as the name suggests, in Japanese ownership, which was then banned in March 1924, and Bangkok kanmuang (October 1922–1932). The latter was very critical under its first editor-in-chief, the cartoonist Sem Sumanan . Sem Sumanan moved to the weekly Kro lek in October 1924 . Among the 10–15 newspapers of the 1920s, the sensationalist Nangsuphim thai and Si krung stand out. Circulations of the more successful papers were 2–3,000, which should have corresponded to a readership of 7,000 each. Press censorship was initially abolished in July 1932. A strict press law was passed again in December.

Thai

boulevard

  • Thai Rath ( ไทยรัฐ ), the newspaper with the largest circulation (1 million), founded in 1962 as the successor to the banned Khaopap Raiwan ( ข่าว ภาพ ราย วัน) , conservative in the 1970s
  • Daily News ( เดลิ นิ ว ส์ ), founded in 1950 as Daily Mail ( แนวหน้า แห่ง ยุค เดลิ นิ ว ส์ ).
  • Khao Sod ( ข่าวสด ), founded 1991, publisher: Matichon Group
  • Kom Chad Luek ( คม ชัด ลึก ). est. 2001, Publisher: Nation Multimedia Group .
Sports coverage

The Siam Sport Syndicate PCL publishes several pure sports papers:

  • สยาม กีฬา ราย วัน (“Siam Sports Daily”), founded in 1985.
  • ส ตา ร์ ซอ ค เก้อ ร์ ราย วัน (“Star Soccer Daily”).
  • สปอร์ต แมน ราย วัน (“Sport Man Daily”), focus on American physical exercise.
  • มวย สยาม ราย วัน ( "Muay Siam Daily"), focus Thai boxing .
entertainment
  • สยาม ดารา ราย วัน (“Siam Dara Daily”), coverage of celebrities

More demanding publications

  • Matichon ( มติ ชน ), founded 1978, publisher: Matichon Group, progressive in the 1970s, pro-NPKC in 1992, critical of Thaksin in the 2000s
  • Thai Post ( ไทย โพ ส ต์ ), founded 1996, publisher: Thai Journal Group Co, critical of Thaksin in the 2000s
  • Naew Na ( แนวหน้า ), 1992 anti-NPKC, critical of Thaksin in the 2000s
  • Sayāmrat sapdā wičhān from 1950 continued as Siam Rath ( สยามรัฐ ), conservative-royalist

Newspapers from parties and political movements

Economic papers

  • Krungthep Turakij ( กรุงเทพ ธุรกิจ ., "Bangkok Business News"), founded in 1987. Publisher: Nation Multimedia
  • Post Today
  • Pracha Chat , Published by Matichon Group

English speaking

  • Bangkok Daily Mail , founded in 1908
  • Bangkok Times , 1887-1942. 1897–1941 with weekly Bangkok Times Weekly Mail for subscribers abroad.
  • Bangkok Post , founded in 1946 by American intelligence agents and Prasit Lulitanond, as an anti-Soviet combat paper. 1971 taken over by the Thompson Group.
  • Bangkok World , 1957 to? 1964
  • The Nation , founded in 1971 as The Voice of the Nation , progressive in the 1970s, numerous journalists from the Bangkok Post switched to the nation in 1991, anti-NKPC in 1992, Thaksin-critical in the 2000s , with Daily Xpress since 2008 .
  • Asia Times, 1995-7
  • The Irrawaddy , founded in 1991, has been an Irrawaddy Publishing Group in Chiang Mai since 1999 . English and Burmese monthly newspaper for opposition journalists.

Chinese

There are two Chinese daily newspapers:

  • Sing Sian Yit Pao ( 星 暹 日報 , ซิ ง เสีย น เยอะ เป้า ), since 1950
  • 泰國 世界 日報 , English Universal Daily News ( หนังสือพิมพ์ สากล )

German speaking

The magazine Der Farang was founded in 1993 by the Swiss Stefan Matter. In 2006 it was taken over by the Swiss couple Bussaba and Martin Rüegsegger. The Farang is the German-language newspaper with the highest circulation in Thailand and appears every 14 days. The TIP newspaper for Thailand is published monthly.

Japanese

  • 週刊 タ イ 経 済 (“Thai Economic Weekly”), founded in 2002.
  • ニ ュ ー ス ク リ ッ プ (“Newsclip”), founded in 2002. Japanese weekly newspaper with a focus on business news.

Online newspapers

  • Prachathai ( ประชา ไท ), online political newspaper in Thai and English
  • Matichon Online , in Thai

literature

  • Checklist of Southeast Asian serials, Southeast Asia Collection, Yale University Library ; Boston 1968
  • Duncan McCargo : Politics and the Press in Thailand. Media machinations. Routledge, London / New York 2000. ISBN 0-415-23376-3
  • Thitinan Pongsudhirak: Thailand's media. Whose watchdog? Routledge, London / New York 1997, pp. 217-232.
  • The Vajirañāna National Library has published directories in Thai:
    • Warasān læ nangsư̄phim nai Prathēt Thai sưng tī phim rawāng phō̜.sō̜. 2478-2514 bannānukrom [Periodicals and newspapers printed in Thailand between 1935-1971: A bibliography], Bangkok 1972
    • Wārasān læ nangsư̄phim nai Prathēt Thai sưng tīphim rawāng Phō̜. So. 2387-2477: bannānukrom. [Periodicals and Newspapers Printed in Thailand between 1844-1934: A Bibliography], Bangkok 1970
    • วารสาร และ หนังสือพิมพ์ ภาษา จีน ที่ ตี พิมพ์ ใน ประเทศไทย ประวัติ และ บรรณานุกรม [Wārasān læ nangsư̄phim phāsā Čhin thī tīphim nai Prathēt Thai: prawat læ bannānukrom = Chinese periodicals and newspapers printed in Thailand: history and bibliography], Bangkok 1976

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the early days see: Winship, Michael; Early Thai Printing: The Beginning to 1851 ; Crossroads, Vol. 3 (1986), No. 1 (Special Issue: Seven Hundred Years of Thai Writing), pp. 45-61 JSTOR PDF version
  2. ↑ ZDB -ID 1145475-1
  3. ↑ ZDB ID 820802-5